Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Dare to be the person you were designed to be.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.